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Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology: An Introduction

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Subject Index<br />

455<br />

Doppler effect 38<br />

Doppler favoritism 211<br />

Doppler shift 10<br />

Doppler width 11, 196<br />

downsizing 401<br />

drop-out technique see Lyman-break<br />

technique<br />

dust 41, 208<br />

– extinction <strong>and</strong> reddening 41, 328,<br />

373<br />

– gray dust 329<br />

– infrared emission 51, 90, 102, 196,<br />

208, 369, 374<br />

– warm dust 196, 208, 371, 374<br />

dwarf galaxies see galaxies<br />

dynamical friction 235, 238, 397, 400<br />

dynamical instability of N-body<br />

systems 85<br />

dynamical pressure 47<br />

E<br />

early-type galaxies 88<br />

Eddington accretion rate 194<br />

Eddington efficiency 205, 206<br />

Eddington luminosity 193–194, 205,<br />

207, 371, 402<br />

effective radius R e 55, 90, 107<br />

effective temperature 425, 426<br />

Effelsberg radio telescope 19<br />

Einstein observatory 31, 255<br />

Einstein radius θ E see gravitational<br />

lenses<br />

Einstein–de Sitter model<br />

see Universe<br />

elliptical galaxies see galaxies<br />

emission coefficient 418<br />

energy density of a radiation field 417<br />

equation of radiative transfer 40, 417<br />

equivalent width 181, 332<br />

expansion rate see cosmology<br />

Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey<br />

(EMSS) 255<br />

extinction 40, 328<br />

– extinction <strong>and</strong> reddening 40, 328<br />

– extinction coefficient 41, 422<br />

extremely red object (ERO) 371–374,<br />

391, 394<br />

F<br />

Fanaroff–Riley classification 178,<br />

184<br />

Faraday rotation 52, 212<br />

feedback 360, 396<br />

fermions 160<br />

Fingers of God 316, 317<br />

fireball model see gamma-ray bursts<br />

flatfield 236<br />

flatness problem 172, 174, 307<br />

flux 417<br />

free–free radiation 242<br />

Freeman law 99, 105<br />

free-steaming 286<br />

Friedmann equations 149, 289<br />

Friedmann–Lemaître model 15, 149<br />

fundamental plane 107–108, 319,<br />

392<br />

FUSE 30, 335<br />

G<br />

GAIA 38, 411<br />

Galactic center 6, 77–84<br />

– black hole 80–85<br />

– distance 45, 56<br />

– flares 82<br />

Galactic coordinates 35–36<br />

Galactic latitude 35<br />

Galactic longitude 35<br />

Galactic poles 35<br />

galaxies 7–8, 87–140<br />

– bimodal color distribution 119<br />

– brightness profile 90–92, 98<br />

– cD galaxies 90, 92, 230, 237, 249,<br />

264<br />

– chemical evolution 138–140<br />

– color–color diagram 357<br />

– dwarf galaxies 90, 224<br />

– E+A galaxies 241<br />

– early-type galaxies 8<br />

– elliptical galaxies 88, 90–98<br />

blue compact dwarfs (BCD’s) 90<br />

classification 88, 90<br />

composition 92–93<br />

counter-rotating disks 96<br />

dark matter 101<br />

dwarf ellipticals (dE’s) 90<br />

dwarf spheroidals (dSph’s) 90<br />

dynamics 93–95<br />

formation 392–395<br />

indicators for complex evolution<br />

95–98, 393<br />

mass-to-light ratio 96<br />

stellar orbits 94<br />

– halos 100<br />

– Hubble sequence 88<br />

– IRAS galaxies 368, 370<br />

– irregular galaxies 88, 224<br />

– late-type galaxies 8<br />

– low surface brightness galaxies<br />

(LSBs) 99, 301<br />

– luminosity function 117–119<br />

– Lyman-break galaxies 367, 391<br />

– morphology–density relation 360<br />

– post-starburst galaxies 241<br />

– S0 galaxies 88, 393<br />

– satellite galaxies 101, 224, 304, 360<br />

– scaling relations 104–109, 116, 319<br />

– SCUBA galaxies 374–377<br />

– spheroidal component 111, 113<br />

– spiral galaxies 88, 98–104<br />

bars 88<br />

bulge 98, 102, 397<br />

corona 103<br />

dark matter 100<br />

early-type spirals 98<br />

normal <strong>and</strong> barred 88<br />

rotation curve 8, 100–102, 104<br />

spiral structure 103<br />

stellar halo 100<br />

stellar populations 102<br />

thick disk 100<br />

– starburst galaxies 11, 89, 203, 358,<br />

369–371<br />

– substructure 302–306, 396<br />

– ULIRG (ultra-luminous infrared<br />

galaxy) 24, 90, 208, 370<br />

galaxy evolution 17, 390–402<br />

galaxy groups 223, 228, 237–238<br />

– compact groups 237, 238<br />

– diffuse optical light 238<br />

GALEX 31, 361<br />

gamma-ray bursts<br />

– afterglows 404<br />

– fireball model 404<br />

– hypernovae 405<br />

– short- <strong>and</strong> long-duration bursts 404<br />

G-dwarf problem 140<br />

globular clusters 55, 102<br />

GOODS project 366

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